Tammi Marcoullier

Author's details

Name: Tammi Marcoullier
Date registered: November 29, 2011

Biography

@TammiM leads the GSA's Center for Excellence in Digital Government Engagement & Outreach team and the Challenge.gov program. It's all about online strategy, social media, engagement tools, #gov20, #innovation, challenge and prize competitions. Video and writing, too! Pre-gov, she was VP of a tech start-up, led content strategy initiatives for AOL and WashingtonPost.com, wrote for USA Today, and had a hand in sports video production.

Latest posts

  1. You’re Invited! Social Media Week DC — February 13, 2013
  2. Trending in 2013: Electronic Health Records — January 3, 2013
  3. What We’re Reading: Social Media — December 11, 2012
  4. What We’re Reading: Social Media — December 3, 2012
  5. What We’re Reading: Social Media — November 13, 2012

Author's posts listings

Nov
06

What We’re Reading: Social Media

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Making social media accessible through multiple devices and platforms can be a challenge, but small tips can help you along the way. Image courtesy of GSA.

Round out your professional reading (and video watching) list with these suggestions, contributed by members of the Federal Social Media Community of Practice. Today, we have 16 headlines to share. Enjoy! Social Media Today: How to Care For and Feed Your Community - Community managers must skillfully cultivate a community to ensure productive conversations. How do …

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Aug
22

Celebrating Two Years of Usability Testing

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A usability hallway test takes advantage of engaging people to test website elements quickly and with little interruption to their day.

This week marks the two-year anniversary of an innovative website usability testing program, First Fridays. To date, the usability team has introduced hundreds of people to the world of usability, conducted more than 45 tests,  and saved taxpayers over $1.3 million. Why test federal websites? Because sometimes citizens have difficulty finding what they’re looking for and …

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Aug
13

200+ Federal Challenge Competitions Launched

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national security agency competition "visualize this" august 2012

Challenge.gov hit a milestone this week with federal agencies launching more than 200 challenge and prize competitions! This impressive benchmark comes just a few weeks short of the two-year anniversary of the platform, which launched September 7, 2010. Another milestone, surpassing 16,000 citizen “solvers” — the people who enter challenge.gov competitions. Congratulations to all who …

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Mar
28

Facebook Pages Flip to Timeline

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USFishWildlife FB page

Facebook Pages are automatically going to the Timeline format after March 30. To prepare government agencies, entities and staff, Facebook’s government representatives Adam Conner and Katie Harbath have been making the rounds to demo the tool changes and share best practices. DigitalGov University hosted a briefing, so you can watch and learn. (Video, handouts, etc., …

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Feb
23

Web Manager University (WMU) Is Now DigitalGovU

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DigitalGov University

Web Manager University, the federal government’s training program for web, new media, and citizen engagement is now DigitalGov University (DGU). Why change? Why now? We’ve seen a huge growth in agencies needing to increase skills and knowledge of digital media and citizen engagement to deliver better results and create a more open and innovative government. …

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